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Syrinx

noun
(pl. syringes)
1.
A primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together.  Synonyms: pandean pipe, panpipe.
2.
The vocal organ of a bird.





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"Syrinx" Quotes from Famous Books



... is the Queen of shepherds all; her great father is Pan, the shepherds' god, and Anne Boleyn is Syrinx. It is not unnatural that when the clergy are spoken of, as they are in three of the poems, the figure should be kept up. But it is curious to find that the shepherd's god, the great Pan, who stands in one connexion for Henry VIII., should in another represent in sober earnest the ...
— Spenser - (English Men of Letters Series) • R. W. Church


Words linked to "Syrinx" :   bird, anatomical structure, bodily structure, structure, panpipe, complex body part, pipe, pandean pipe, body structure


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